Books like Once Upon a Cloud
By Claire Keane
For the child who agonizes over picking just the right present, this follows that same tender searching, all the way up into the clouds. Dreamy, tender, and softly magical, like drifting through a bedtime sky.
A poor washerwoman on the island of Martinique uses her mother's magic wand to help her beloved goddaughter Cendrillon win the heart of a rich man's son.
A little girl longs to play with the moon, so her father sets off with a very long ladder to bring it down to her — however small he must wait for it to become.
On the night a child is born, the whole natural world responds — the moon lingers, geese fly home, polar bears dance — celebrating that this one and only child has arrived.
A lonely sail maker named Osamu nurses an injured crane back to health one stormy night, an act of quiet kindness that sets his life on an unexpected new course.
A little boy who loves the tangerine dress in his classroom's dress-up center is taunted by classmates who say dresses are for girls and astronauts don't wear them — until he builds his own spaceship and invites them aboard.
A merman searching for a partner in the deep sea and a fisherman wondering what waits beyond the horizon find each other under a star-filled sky, and their love changes both worlds.
A lonely little girl finds a star that has fallen out of the sky and becomes its friend, but when the star grows sick, she must decide whether to let it go home.
After his plane crashes in the Sahara, a pilot meets a strange, solemn boy who has traveled from a tiny distant asteroid, and who slowly reveals the loneliness of the worlds he's left behind.
On a moonlit night, a childless couple discovers a dozen tiny babies scattered in a meadow after a magical moonshower, and takes them in to raise as their own.
A sturdy farm girl named Fanny Agnes waits in her garden for a fairy godmother to whisk her off to the mayor's grand ball and her destined prince — but who actually shows up changes everything.
A servant girl in her own home dreams of attending the royal ball, until a fairy godmother's magic gives her a gown, a coach, and one midnight deadline.
A stuffed toy rabbit longs to become Real through the love of the boy who owns him, even as he grows shabbier and worn — until the fear of being thrown away threatens everything.
